Eastern Green Drake

[Chaz]

GD's were on quite heavy the night of Halliday's perfect game on Upper Pine. What a night!

 

[sandfly]

now chaz don't give it away totally...lol

 

[yellowhammer]

pcray,

I'm guessing this is a hex (pic is from my porch in pittsburgh). Can you confirm from photo?

Thanks.

 

[pcray1231]

Yeah, I'm fairly sure. Can't count tails from the pic, could be a yellow drake. But it strikes me more as hex and by location, it also makes more sense.

Put it up in the hex thread.

 

[PennKev]

ryguyfi wrote:
good points as usual Pat. There lack of "good" trout streams in this area are def a downside to hatch tracking. There's a nice wild stream here that PennKev is just dumbfounded on with the caddis. EVERY rock on the stream is covered in cases, but we just can't figure out when the hatch. Just a good example of a lack of information to help out those looking for specific hatches in a small demographic of trout streams.

October caddis. They hatch at night in the fall.

 

[ryguyfi]

Can someone give me a measurement of the Drakes from Penns. I think my extended body flies are a bit too big, and I think there's a good chance we'll see them at the JAM this year.

By my estimates, they're almost right on the money at 2cm from the pics?

 

[Heritage-Angler]

ryguyfi wrote:
Can someone give me a measurement of the Drakes from Penns. I think my extended body flies are a bit too big, and I think there's a good chance we'll see them at the JAM this year.

By my estimates, they're almost right on the money at 2cm from the pics?

Ryan - My records show them to be from 2 to 3 cm in body length.

 

[ryguyfi]

I was speaking with Old Lefty at the JAM about my newly invented Green Drake nymph pattern and he asked why I put a white stripe down the back because they didn't have one.


http://www.troutnut.com/specimen/899

Is this mislabeled on troutnut, or are the Easterns different?

 

[pcray1231]

You're not only in the wrong genus there, but wrong family!

http://www.troutnut.com/hatch/494/Mayfly-Ephemera-guttulata-Green-Drake

There are no nymph pics on troutnut. You can go to the brown drake page and see a much more closely related nymph, like this guy:

http://www.troutnut.com/specimen/91

Or here's a true GD nymph:

http://www.njflyfishing.com/photopost/data/509/418DSC_0204_-_Guttulata.jpg

 

[ryguyfi]

I don't do the latin stuff. Just hit the "common name" link on troutnut and went to Green Drake.

 

[pcray1231]

And it steered you the wrong way! You were looking at something in the Drunella genus. Eastern species of those are called BWO's.

 

[csoult]

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[albatross]

Ryan, A large golden stonefly nymph pattern (e.g. Kauffman's Stone) works pretty well for the Eastern Green Drake Nymph. Also many of the waters were the green drakes hatch around here have perla stones anyway so you can kill two birds with one "stone" (get it?)...

Female

Male